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Motin
Motin

Reputation: 5063

SCons - 'rc' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

I have set-up everything according to instructions on https://github.com/TideSDK/TideSDK/wiki/Windows7-x86-2005

But, scons won't pick up "rc" from PATH:

> scons -s debug=1 sdkinstaller run=1
...
runs fine for a while, until:
...
cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'Wp64' has been deprecated and will be
removed in a future release
cl : Command line warning D9035 : option 'Wp64' has been deprecated and will be
removed in a future release
boot_win32.cpp
'rc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
scons: *** [build\win32\objs\boot\support\winboot.res] Error 1

> rc
fatal error RC1107: invalid usage; use RC /? for Help

> echo %path%
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files\Microsof
t Visual Studio 8\VC\BIN;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tool
s;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin;C:\WINXP\Microsoft.NET
\Framework\v2.0.50727;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\VCPackages;C
:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.8.0-Q16;C:\WINXP\system32;C:\WINXP;C:\WINXP\System
32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program
 Files\Git\bin;C:\Python25\Scripts;C:\Python25

Googling on this matter suggests the solution to add the VC bin directory to PATH, but as you can see, that is already in place.

Note: I installed and used scons 2.2.0 as well, but then it wouldn't even recognize "cl". At least with scons 1.2.0 it recognizes "cl", but unfortunately not "rc"

First time building on Windows, any advice appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3275

Answers (2)

Iwijn
Iwijn

Reputation: 1

I needed multiple VC versions on my system.

By adding print(env.Dump()) to my SConscript file I could see the paths SCons searches in to find rc.exe. ENV > PATH showed C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Kits\\10\\bin\\x64 as one of the paths, while my windows kit install put the rc.exe and rcdll.dll in C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.19041.0\x64.

Copying rc.exe and rcdll.dll to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x64 solved my issues.

Same can be done for the x86 versions of the file paths I named above.

Upvotes: 0

XCoder
XCoder

Reputation: 295

Might help for someone else, but Visual Studio has it's own CMD which will have these path set. Just open corresponding Visual Studio CMD and compile from there.

Upvotes: -2

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